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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7; 1946 ~

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POLITICS AS A PROFESSION
We are wondering what profession. trade or business you.
teen-agers are going to select for your life ~work. You cannc:
start too early to. think about such matters.. You had better.
be a good money maker for you are now almost $2000.00
-indebt. This amount is your share of the national debts. And
it does not include State, Municipal and family debts. It has
resulted mostly from wars. indeed if there had been no wars
we should probably have little or no national. debt. Today.
you are head over heels in debt, paying for something you
did net contract and did not even know about. This is clearly an injustice, yet in the situation you should see a great need.
which means a great opportunity. The opportunity is in political leadership. We can hear your parents screaming, ~~What,
our son a politician!~ Such remarks themselves reveal the
great need and the great opportunity. We insist that the business of being an official in the biggest business in the world~
the business of helping to run the government~is held in ve:
low repute. It is astounding. It is sad. It is a danger signal.
lt is also a tremendous opportunity.
- In~ancient Greece, politics was regarded as the highest of
all professions. In the U.S. today, it is in very low public
-esteem. Why the difference? In Greece, the ablest men went
into politics; in the U.S. the ablest go into business. Activ~
participation in politics, if any, is likely to be incidental. A
large proportion of our elected officials have little definite
training for the job and that~ little has generally been acquired
with some other end in view or by chance. A feeling of responsibility to the public and the knowledge of what to do are
not likely to sprout spontaneously in response to. favorable
election returns.
't is very clear that there will not be a proper respect for

- ~ the profession of politics until many more respectable and re
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Leadership
Training Project

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project here to its
- committee.

~been purchased near here to}
erect a. plant
training
studies and recreation for all|moved to Jenkins Ga., where |
people, the Rev. A. C. Carra-|he founded the Ebenezer Bapt- |
way, pastor of the Capital View| ist church. In 1928, he retired
Methodist Church, told the con-/ from the ministry and two years

sponsible persons engage in it.~ Perhaps the uncertain nature of
political office repe!s the highest type of persons. There has
to be an answer to this in the interest of improved government.
It may be that we shall have to pass legislation or otherwise
change our political set up to make office-holding appeal to big
men as a career. We don't know how the job can be done
but we do know that it needs to be done and that it can be
_ done.

That politics is an especially promising field goes. ~veituant
gow Al and yet it seems that politics has functioned more inadequately and inefficiently than any other profession. Let

~ us look at the record.

Most of the large nations of the world are bankrupt.
Even the U.S., so the experts say, has a debt larger than its
assessed valuation. In China there are large landowners who
have paid their taxes several hundred years in advance~by demand of course. Throughout the world it is apparent that few
rulers rule well. Leaders for the most part spring up as weeds
and are often jvst as obnoxious. When they are confronted
with a crisis that calls for real leadership they are usually incompetent to meet it so they fall back on the last resort of the
unskilled leader, namely, war.

Suppose that the head of a great corporation was forever
getting his firm into quarrels and lawsuits. Suppose that. he
spent most of the firm's money in litigation, then borrowed
more than the assets of the company were worth and spent the
borrowings likewise. What would happen in such a case?
Tke firm would be bankrupt and its directors discredited and
exposed for their foolish inefficiency. But the heads of nations do that and worse. They rot only bankrupt their coun
_ tries but have the flower of the people killed off besides. it
would seem that normally there are plenty of politicians with
brains enough to be great, but the too frequently lack the vision,
in~egrity and determination to render real public service.

*. Politicierns in many instances have worked under the aseuraption that they were engaged in a shaciy business. The efficient governing of human beings can never be shady. or igneble. It is a great and noble uncertaking. The fact that
small persons have invariably been engaged in 1t does not
change the essential character of the enterprise.

~ The great political leader of the future will do well to propeel on the premise that the right course is also the best and
most expedient course in political as in every walk of life.

~(Reprint from The Buffalo Guardian)

CME~s Table Ex-Slave
Dies at 115

NEWARK, N. J. ~ ANP --
| Born a slave or a Georgia plan
LE ROCK ~ ANP~Del-! tation 115 years ago last June |
ca 119, the Rev. Jesse James died

egates to the annual conference |

ae the CME church voted last | here ~Tuesday (last) at the
Be to refer the matter of en- of his daughter, Mrs. Gelane
a leadership _ trairing Davis.
Zducationa~ | After the close
war, he took up
and preached on
groups of Negroes from~ nea: |
leadership | farms, and worked on weckiays |
community | as a sharecropper. Soon after, he

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dames E. Jackson {s Real Leader

There is something glamorous and glorious about leadership. Many are they who therefore aspire to lead; but few
there are who are willing to pay the price of that Jeadérship
that the Negro so much needs through these critical times. The
~safety first~~ man cannot make a leader; for leadership, now
as always, is a risky, dangerous business. It is true that we
have a multitude of so-calied leaders who are perenially safe;
but the fact remains leadership i is a hazardous calling. So few
are willing to pay the price.

When some spectacular gesture is needed or some great
speech needed or some big headlines floating around, we can
always find a man; but when there is some sacrifice or some
danger, our leaders thin out like cheap paint. ~ it was said that
the cause of the Negro~s emancipation was suffering for lack of
'4 martyr when John Brown appeared at Harper's Ferry and
out his head into a hangman~s noose. There had been a plethora of speeches and lectures and sermons and writings on
the subject of slavery. But the time had come when the cause
needed someone to die for it. John Brown alone said ~Here
am I.~; J.

Just as the gallows at Charlestown called for.a John
Brown, so the cause of the Negro today is calling for a Negro
leadership which. has risen above the ~safety first~~ level of
time-serving, popularity seeking, grand-stend-watching weaklings, who imagine themselves leaders and who make bold to
so declare themselves. But when the gibbet and rack and
prison are calling they have business elsewhere.

This. article is inspired by an account of recent date that
James E. Jackson has been jailed in New Orleans.
ago James E. Jackson was student in Virginia Union University
and busied himself about organizing the tobacco workers of
Richmond who number into the thousands, Jackson got himself put in jail; and ever since that day [ have been deeply impressed with Jackson and the mission on which he has launched himself. This writer was struck by the willingness of this
yourg Negro to pay the price of-leadership, Today the Negro
tobacco workers of Richmond are organized due largely to
the sacrificial efforts of young Jackson. e

New Orleans the fountain of my admiration for this young
mora! stalwart was broken up, and | write this in deepest appreciation of one of the great souls of this generation. Those
of our race who wind up in jails are ordinarily the poor and
impecunions; but in the case of young Jackson this is not so.
He hails from one of the finest families of Old Virginia. He is
a graduate of Virginia Union University and a pharmacist by
profession. He might, if he wanted, be a partner. with his
pharmacist father, but James E. Jackson has cast his lot with
the struggling and underprivileged of his people and the coun
try.

In New Orleans he is being called a communist. But who
has not been so called for some pretext or other? Ever since
we opened the doors of Moore Street Baptist Church in Richmond to the communists to hold a meeting because they could

not find any other place, this writer has reasons to believe that
he has been suspected of being a communist. The fact is, }

A few years!

So when I read that again Dr, Jackson had been jailed in

Vis. Bethune
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Seal Sales

WASHINGTON ~ ANP
Cooperation with tuberculvusis
associations in their campaign
fen a disease

which kills
three times more Negroes than
white people was urged by Mrs.
Mary McLeod Bethune or the
eve of ~the opening of the 40th
annual Christmas Seal sale. to
raise funds for the support of
the associations. The seal sale
aif be

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DEMOCRACY

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terribly
miners strike.
John L. Lewis at. present
court to try and convict him gs. government, |

conducted throughout

the nation from Nov. 25 to
Cagis 25.:

rs. Bethune, who is the

founder and president of the

By ELDER BENNETT

Our government at present is
interested in the coal
They have Mr.
int

contempt charg-_
es which have.
been filed against him, by the

They know if
ine strike. con- Yh
tirues it will?~
place our nationg
in a eritical my
condition that~
would effect the
rich class and
the big politici~ans of America, Elder Bennett
If it was & matter that would
only hurt the poor class of
people the government: would
not be as interested as they
are now. That shows. selfishness. The great men of America have as a. whole only the
desire to protect their class,
and not the peoples of America.

There are two things which
are practiced in America that
are more dangerous than the
strike of the miners and that
is Religious and Race Prejudices. There are very few peoplé
of the Caucasian race who are
not prejudice toward the Negro and the Indian -race of p~ople. If our government was half
as interested in protecting all
citizens and seeing to it that
they receive their equal rights,
this nation would. be a fully
democratic one,

A large per certt of the Caucasian-race don~t like the Jews
If we hate the Jews how can
we love Jesus? He was of the
lenage of David, father ~of King
Solomon, in Jewish ancestry.
The prophets were part Jewish
blood, and so were the apostle
Paul, part Jew and Greek.

The Jewish ration has lived a
cleaner life than the Gentile.na
Natiorral Council of Negro wompn,. declared that
of} tuberculosis.~~
We Know its @ause. she
said.. ~We know how to prevent
iti! We kniw that it can be cured. But d4gpite this knowledge,
nearly 32,000 peopic die from

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tuberculosis every year in the
United States.~ -
~Pointing out that there are

special health problems among
| Negroes, due largely to crowdled housing, poor nutrition and
inadequate hospital _ facilities
Mrs. Bethune said that tuberculosis alone has a death rate

among Negroes three times
higher than among the white
population.

~Tuberculosis associations, sht
contimued, are aware of~ the
special health problems facing
Negroes and are working with
Negrole laders to solve these
p ne

Postpone CIO

Election
Hearing

ALTIMORE ~ ANP ~ The
National Labor Relations board~s
regional headquarters here last
week armounced that the formal
hearing scheduled on the controversial election which the
CIO lost by a 85-to-27 vote on
May 29 in the P. D. Gwaltney
Jr. & Company in Smithfield
has) been postponed to Decem
' did not went to have it said that Richmond was so narrow that
a communist could find stankling room. Moreover, I am|
not so weak-kneed in my democracy that I | lam afraid to hear |

what the communists have to say.. After | listen to them /
can still be a democrat, feeling stronger for knowing that I can
hear the best of communism and still cling to| democracy.

No hot-house democracy for me. So when Dr. Jackson is|

ber! 17. The hearing was scheduled |for Smithfield: Va.,-and will
be held there on the later date.

The United Packing House
worker's of America, CIO, pro|
test~d the results of the elec
tion| because as the union

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tions have. The Jews are not
| self-exalted, they don~t possess
las much pride as the Gentiles.
Their wealth doen~t make them
self-exalted, and they don~t
~think they are arty better than
anyone certain group of people.
If the Jews were to leave the
United States and take their
wealth with them, this country
would. be in a terrible condition.

I don't believe there are two
white people who can truthfully tell me why they hate the
~three darker races. I say it
isn~t anything but pure ignorance and sin. Ix ask our Federal
Government why don~t you get
interested in the Negro race
in the Southern states, who are

you are not willing to protect
their civil rights why do you
want them to live here?

Negro people it doesn~t hurt
you at all does it? If it did
hurt you would do like the government is now doing concerhing coal miners. You really do
not believe in justice do you?
If more of us. would repent our
sins this world would be much
i better.

I franklyt say ket us Practice
what we so strongly preach and
that is Justice to All Citizens.
If we don~t take care of these
two deatlly evils in Ameriea it
will be too late to make any
protest against the said. crimes.
Let us be real and true Americans,~ in principals and. above
all practices,

Let us follow the Golden
Rulé, ~~Do unfo others as we so
desire them to do unto us."~ We
will ther be practicing real ~
mocracy.

~ good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust,~
monishes against inertia and the curse of going to rust.

being lynched artd massacréd, If

By inhumanly mistredting the |;

ference im session at Bullock|
Temple. He urged support for
the movement but the matter
was referred to conference's
Educational committee.
A total of $6,591.81 was col- |
Temple last}
reported the Rev. L. T.
The missionary

Rev. J. B. Boyd, secretary of.
_ superannuated preachers, wid~ and orphans. Other speakincluded E D. Durr, conrnal president of lay ac
rn

mf ba

lived in retirement until his
death.:

Of 15 children, only two daughters survive, Mrs..Davis* and
and Mrs. Ella Orange, of Jenkins.
There are also nine grandchildren ani 10 great-grandchildren.
tivities; Dr. A. W.,. Womack,
Memphis; the Rev: BE. F. Ha:
ris, presiding elder of the Mem-|
phis-Jackson conference; and
Atty: I & ~Pinkett, Chicago
Heights, Il.

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| James E. Jackson.

called a communist-is does not mean anything in particular. |
When he denied saying that he thought Russia was better than} charted, workers were not perthe United States, | believe him. James E. Jackson will not lie| mitted freely to express their
wishes in view of the campaign
| intimidation and, terror which
thousands and thousands of others who ~~wr'te~~ and talk about | was | sponsored by persons opdeepest apprecia- | posed, to the union re up

about what he believes. He has courage! He is always willing |.
to pay the price. So longas { am not going to jail myself like!

-our racial troubles, | just want to express my
tion to a young Negro with moral stamina. If

we are not going;
to jail gusedve. then let us honor him who qd

oes go.

Young James E. Jackson is one of che fowers of American
manhood and has justly merited the gratitude of a-race and nation. 'Would God that the leadership of the Negro race were
thoroughly Jackson-ized. Just as the gallows called for a martyr in the time of John Brown, so the jail is calling for men iike
More strength to the Jacksons!

to te electiorr.

| Binks Buy Bonds
By 1942 more than half of the assets of member banks of the Fedéral Reserve System were govern
ment isecurities ds contrasted with

a lige rtion of less than se per cent

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Conference Gives
Gov. Arnall
Award

ference for Human welfare in

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four years opened here Thanksgiving night for a_ three-day
meet. Highlighting the biennial

south in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson~ ~to Gov. Ellis Ar
of Florida ard Mrs. Mary Leod

SENTENCE SERMONS

B, REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY

There is nothing smart about always thinking of one~s

gelfi~life becomes sweet and mellow when we begin to include
the other fellow.

Then there is also this greater danger as men begin to see
the light, they sometimes let their prid overrule them, and
favor some people, and others slight.

What if God only favored certain linked and stepped

aside to aid only a select few, under such a biased arrangement, anything might happen to persons like you.

This world, by God, was not built with a common spade,

so that men could come along in the same order and arrange
his brother in high or low grade.

~For He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the |
* yet He ad
God: ~hath made of on blood all nations of men for to
dwell on the face of the earth,~~ and not since was an individual born who had anything to do with his birth.

But man, though the highest of God's creation seems hard

of undérstanding that, as animals and flowers are of every

size, color, tint and hue, so men of all the various races, have

their God-given characterizations too.

' It~is expected that lower animals would foliow the ~~catch
as-catch-can~~ instincts of their species; but that high, digni
fied man would not stoop to race hatred, a most malignant and

almost hopeless disease.

' But man has dlways fallen prey to his own mean and low
ways, and this is the master stroke of Satan who promised to
forever keep him in a daze.

Man, ~who is but the expression aud reflection of his
thoughts, has prodticed a restless world ~es daily he has to
face the results of his faults.

| is lost in the thraldom of his own arrogance and pride.
Blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord, but woe
unto that people where His high principles are ignored.

_ By GEORGE F. McCRAY
U.S. JUDGE TRIES TO-~GAG~ LEWIS

The immediate issues in the present battle between President Harry S. Truman and the United States government on
one side and the organized labor movement on the other are
as odd as the labor movement itself. Both the CIO and AFL
are lined up in solid opposition to any attempts against him
and the United Mine Workers of America. In this is a lesson
for our feuding Negro leaders. _

The CIO is not in Lewis~ corner because the CIO leaders
love the big blowhard. As a mater of fact many of the CIO
crowd openly hate him. Others would have been glad to see
something happen to Lewis to take some of the ~~~heliishness
and cockiness~ out of him. Of course they did not want to

want to~see the big guy, who tried to break the auto: workers
strike last Winter, eat humble pie.

-The CIO leaders, despite their strong dislike of tonic
did not permit this dislike to blind them to the fact that what
the government could do to Lewis and the United Mine Workers, AFL, could also be done to them. They knew instantly
that us of the injunction in labor disputes could be used to
hamstring them and their unions just as easily as it could be
used against Lewis and the miners.

No matter how bitterly the labor leaders fight each other,
they always get together to protect their common interests.
Few Negro leaders have been able to put aside their personal
feelings long enough to protect the common: interests of the
people whom they were leading. Lewis~ strongest support in
~the AFL today comes from men he had fought and ridiculed
in the loosest terms.

The CIO conve has just concluded its 1946 session
ir~ Atlantic City. GeneraNy it was a pretty tame and uneventfull affair. It adopted a resolution which meant more than it actually said. Between the lines of an innocently worded declaration the right wing of the CiO informed the far more zealous left wing that the right wing is tired of being out-played or
over-played by so-called Communists. Something like this ~
squeeze against the left wing was expected since the Political ~
Action Committee and the Democrats took such a royal beating during the recent elections.

According to the ~spirit~~ of the peashiean Walter Reu
ther, Willard Townsend, Sam Wolchock, Emil Rieve and James
Carey, -want fellows like Joe Curran, Harry Bridges, Mike Quill
and Fitzgerald, to let the initiative on CIO policy be taken.
mote: by CIO elected representatives. In the future, it is hoped,
the suspected Communists ~will behave like shrinking violets and
take a back seat.
But if anything really comes.of the word and the spirit of
the resolution condemning Communist and other outside interference in CIO. affairs, it will come as a result of a desire of the
Communists to preserve their working agreement with CIO right
wing leaders. Moreover the left wing labor leaders *waht to
avoid being isolated during the gathering ~a storm and
_to stop Raving Republraie to win elections.

Two Youths Named 4-H Club |
Champs; Get $25 War Bonds"

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ~ANP
~Prizes of $25 war savings
bortds were awarded to Ruby
Lucille Loudd, 15, of Union
County, and James D. Campbell, 17, of Lee County by the
Arkansas Farm Bureau, for being declared 1946 state champions of the Negro 4-H Club, it
was announced Wednesday by
L. L. Phillips, 4-H club agent.
Ruby, who is president of
the Smith club, won _ second

place in the state tomato judging contest this year and first
place in the county scholarship
contest last year. During the
past three years, James has netted $1,831 from pig, corn, and
sweet potato demonstrations.

Champion club award wernt to
Boughton and New Bethel Negro 4-H club Nevada. county.
A cash award will be given
the group by the Ne agro County
Agents asscciation.

meet was the presentation of the Bethune, president of the NaJefferson award ~~for outstand-/ tional] Counci~ of Ne:: gro woming~ fervice te the peogle of the!.. wie addremea the delb
gates in Carpenters hall and

nall of Georgia, before 5,000; called for the formulation of 9

oo ORLEANS~ ANP ~ southerners,in Municipal aud-| Program of action for a ~more

first broad south-wide | itorium, Saturday evening, No- seshocratio and prosperous south,
meeting of the Southern Con- | yember 30.~:

The opening sesion was key- Gulls Open Clams

2 Herring gulls open clams
noted by Sen. Claude Pepper) ping.them trom " ~bola oe the
tocks below.

ab a Dae eae ale Bae i eR ele di ri ke a eS

Thus, where peace, joy and happiness should~ abide, he ~

see the A400, 600 Negro and white-miners hurt, but they did):

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